Safety clip or holder for a garment attachable implement



July 14, 1959" E. c. TREWEEK 2,894,300

SAFETY CLIP OR HOLDER FOR A GARMENT ATTACK- ABLE IMPLEMENT Filed Sept. 3, 1957 ERIC, C. Taawaem- INVENTOR I ATTORNEY 2,894,300 SAFETY ctr ORHOLDER FoR A GARMENT ATTACHABLE IMPLEMENT Erie Charles Treweek, Seaclifi, Otago, New Zealand Application Septemberi}, 1957, Serial No. 681,831

1 Claim. 0144-11 This invention relates to clips or holders as used on instruments including pens, pencils or the like, to be attached to and carried upon an open edge of a pocket ora garment.

Many types of clips or holders are known; clip devices at present in use have faults of being either too stiff and closely set against a side of the instrument or being too flimsy and easily bent so as to be useless. Moreover, the clips or holders have no provision for taking varying thicknesses of material to be gripped between a clip and the instrument. Those clips that are made too stiff or lacking inherent resiliency require often the use of two hands to insert the instrument into the pocket, thus often wasting valuable time as well as being generally inconvenient. Other types, being too weak, fail to adequately grip the material between the clip proper and the instrument, and are frequently so ineffective that the instrument becomes displaced and lost.

To overcome these disadvantages there have already been proposed movable clips mounted on instruments, such as pen caps, whereby the clip may be moved outwards therefrom so as to pass freely over the open edge of the material to 'be gripped. On release of pressure used to open the clip it is closed by spring action, and a stem of the clip closes on to the material and theoretically grips the same. However, the gripping and holding action is entirely dependent on the frictional grip usually provided by a ball or inwardly curved projection at the bottom end of the stem and, where the material is of an unsuitable nature such as laundered coats, it has been found that the holding effect is by no means positive and certain.

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide an improved spring clip having special means adapted to engage and hold the clip on material positioned between the clip stem and the instrument, such as a cap part, whereby there is a positive localised engagement of the clips holding means into the material gripped or clamped.

Generally, the invention covers a clip or holder comprising a rest for attachment to an instrument, such as a pen or the like, a lever combined with the rest whereby a wider top end of the lever is sprung obliquely from the rest and the lever tapers down to a lower and gripping end provided with an inturned point shaped as a gripping member suited to engage and grip by local grip, puncture or indentation, material clamped between the lever and the instrument.

In further describing the invention reference will be made hereinafter to the accompanying drawing, which includes two forms of the invention by way of examples only; in such drawing:

Figure 1 is a detail side view of the clip pivotally attached to a pen cap in the closed or grip-clamping position Figure 2 is an inner face view of the clip, and

Figure 3 is a detail side view of the clip in the open United States I Patent Patented July 14, 19 59 2 or free position for easy insertion or withdrawal of material beneath the clip;

Figure .4 is a detail side view of another formof the clip having a sprung attachment upon a pen cap in the fclosed or grip-clamping position;

Figure 5 is an inner face view of the clip, and

Figure 6 is a detail side view of the clip of Figure 4 in the open position.

As shown in Figures 1 to 3 of the drawing, the cap or a body part 10 has a rest or a pivotal. hinge member 11 suitably attached. This member 11 pivotally mounts a lever clip member 12 upon a small hinge pin 11A.

The clip member has a portion 12A extending above its pivotal connection to the member 11 and a much longer portion or arm extending below said pivotal connection. The portion 12A is shaped with a widened end, adapted for use as a finger or thurnbpiece, with an inner flanged edge and a small torsion spring 13 which is mouned upon the hinge pin 11A and has an extension set within the flanged end. The spring 13 is conventional and includes a U-shaped extension lying within and pressing against the flanged end of the upper side 12A of the clip member 12. The other end of the spring 13 is set against the hinge member 11 to produce torsion. The spring 13 will thus force the upper end 12A of the clip member outwards or away from the cap 10, causing the arm 12B to lie alongside the cap or body part.

At the extremity of this arm 12B there is provided a gripping member disposed to extend inwardly therefrom. This gripping member is in the nature of a small pin 14 which can be pressed through a small aperture in the extremity of the arm 128 for the head of the pin to be riveted or welded thereto.

Figures 4 to 6 show a modified form of attachment of the clip for mounting it to a two-piece pen cap or body 10. This is provided by means of an annular rest or plate 11 of a size to fit the cap and shaped with an upwardly projecting tongue 11A which can be tempered at its bend from the plate.

The clip member 12A has a shorter upper side 12' shaped with a widened end as before and with checks 12a. The tongue 11A is provided to fit within this end and the cheeks 12a are then pressed down to enclose the end of the tongue. The cheeks 12a and the upper end of the clip member 12A form a hood or pocket to clampingly and tightly engage the tongue 11A. The other and main length 12B of the clip member 12 extends down and a pin 14' is secured in the extremity of the length 12B. This form of clip is simply fitted to a two-piece cap 10" by unscrewing the top, placing the plate 11 on the screw-threaded male part of the joint of the cap and screwing back on the top. A small hole liia can be made in the cap for the point of the pin 14 to normally be located therein, thus ensuring the arm 123' to be relatively close to the cap 10'.

As a further modification, instead of including the pin 14 or 14 the gripping member can have the terminal end of the arm 12B or 12B bent inwards and provided with a sharp point.

In use, when the clip member is in the operational closed position, as shown in Figures 1 or 4 of the drawing, the gripping member 14 or 14 pierces or indents the clamped material M and effectively prevents any possibility of withdrawal of same. At the same time the clamp arm 12B or 12B overlies and presses on to part of the material, and thus helps to stabilise the disposition of parts engaging the material. As indicated in the drawing, in Figures 3 and 6, upon the application of thumb (T) pressure to the end 12A or 12A of the clip member, its arm 12B or 12B is opened easily and is conveniently disposed for the free introduction of the material M between the arm and the pin cap, or for the or the like to be carried onthe person and where the gripping point must be located outside the structureof the cap, body or tube of the instrument.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is;

A clip for a two-part pen cap comprising an annular member positioned and clamped between the two parts of the cap and having an upwardly and outwardly projecting tongue at the outer periphery thereof, a clip member having at its upper end a pair of inwardly bent cheeks providing a closed hood with the facing upper end portion of the clip member and lying in a plane :spaced from and panallel to the plane containing the major part of the clip member, the shape of the upper end of the hood and of the tongue being identical where by both faces of the tongue and the enclosed upper edge thereof are in contact with the interior surfaces of the hood for elfecting engagement between the tongue and hood to provide the clamping means therebetween, and

, 4 a needle-shaped element located in the lower end of the clip member at right angles thereto, whereby material of a garment may be pierced by said needle-shaped element and effectively held between the cap and the clip member with no possibility of withdrawal of same.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 844,061 Van Valkenburg Feb. 12, 1907 884,865 Sands Apr. 14, 1908 1,260,054 Ribelin Mar. 19, 1918 1,350,412 La France et a1 Aug. 24, 1920 2,423,948 Prince July 15, 1947 2,500,367 LHeureux Mar. 14, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 26,090 France Apr. 10, 1923 248,227 Switzerland Feb. 2, 1948 505,917 France May 17, 1920 934,299 France Jan. 10, 1948 

